Coming Up · Art · Moscow · Museums · Humour

Painting by Antonio Tibaldi in the Pushkin Museum's exhibition of Italian Baroque painting

- Come and get your Chardzhou melons! Sweet as honey, smooth as a maiden! Step up, snap them up! As you see, the first to swoop down was the Italian master of still life Antonio Tibaldi (1635-1675). The painting is in the display «Flowers, Fruits and Musical Instruments in Italian

Archive · Humour

How It Went:

Kolya, my dear fellow! Yes, yes, I agree, I agree, only put out that cigarette!

NB! · Observations · Humour

Does Ivan really have so few projects?)

Art · Moscow · Humour

When You and Your Other Half Have Different Goals

Lev Povzner, the exhibition “Field of Wonders” at the Alina Pinsky Gallery

NB! · Art · Observations · People · Humour

How do you think Pushkin is faring in the hands of the German artist Eberhard Hückstedt?

Observations · Humour

How suit and rank are encoded in pictures on early modern playing cards

The markings on the playing cards of the early modern period may differ greatly from those we are used to, and certainly call for an explanatory note. The suit and rank of a card are encoded in pictures, the combination of which yields the correct value. 5 is a branch

NB! · Nature · Humour

The Dandelion of a Healthy Man

Portrait of a grey-haired man in a blue checked suit and blue tie, seated with clasped hands in front of gilded door panels.

NB! · Monarchies · Observations · Humour

New official portrait of King Charles III, his appearance, makeup and retouching

In his new official portrait, King Charles III looks rather poorly. And the make-up and retouching have let the side down

NB! · Archaeology · Geography · Humour

Communication with space is unavailable, since the pyramids have shifted 4 km south of their original site since construction because of the movement of the earth's crust

Communication with space is unavailable, since the pyramids have shifted 4 km south of their original site since construction because of the movement of the earth's crust. And that is without taking into account the drift of the Earth's and the Sun's orbits

NB! · Art · Observations · Humour

The mood of not going to school tomorrow, as I look at Edward Hopper's 1935 painting "House at Dusk"

NB! · Art · London · Observations · Humour

The habit of the city dweller: spotting signs of atmospheric pollution even in a seventeenth-century rural landscape with a view of the English palace of Whitehall

The habit of the city dweller: spotting signs of atmospheric pollution even in a seventeenth-century rural landscape with a view of the English palace of Whitehall. Dutch master Hendrik Danckerts

Cinema · Observations · Humour

Can it be a coincidence that two of your favourite films were made by the same man?

I have only just learnt that the Australian director George Miller, who turned 79 yesterday, made both "Mad Max" and "Babe".